Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-10-26
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The Horrible Fats ot 5 Young ANA Onoo
) 50 BSnutafu1 Ohio Girl, I.

The Horrible Fate 81 5 Young ana once
Beauti Ohio Girl
On the Brecksyille road, about six miles,
! from the town 81 Forain, 5O., lives q farmer
named Max Harmon, who came from Penn
8sylvania about . year ago Harmon's
family, says d Cleveland corresponde dent OF
the Chicago Herald consists OF q wife and
three children. The oldest, named Mary, Is
q young lady ninete years Of age, who has
passed through one OF the strangest and
most painful experiences that ever foil to
the lot Of o human being. "a short time ago
she was 81 plump, rosy-cheeked girl OF .ro-
bust health and q sunny dispositio To-
day, through the influence Of . most peculiar
accident, she IS, IN all but years, q shrunk-
en-, peevish old woman The story OF this
strange metamorpho hosts IS as 70 lows !: Mary
was engaged to be married to 8 man named
Jacob Eberlein, who had followed the
Harmons from Pennsylvania, and after
ward worked for Mr.. Harmon and made his
home with the family. About six weeks
ago the young couple came to Cleveland to
make some purchases and to see the
sights. One Of the young mans friends
worked in one of the electric light establish
ments at the time. Eberlein proposed to
take his future bride through the place and;
show her the machinery It appears that
broken wire Of her panier or hustle had
impoverished worked its way through her
dress. W lille passing along the wire came
in contact with one Of the powerful electric
machines, and her hand resting on an iron
bar at the time completed the circuit, and
she received q severe shock and fell in
sensible to- the floor. In q few moments
she revived sufficiently to be removed from
the place, and was taken to her home. The
muscles of her face were drawn and
strained, but it was thought that that would
shortly disappear. ;.
Medical aid was summoned: For four
days the girl lay in bed in paralyzed con-
dition. Then she regained the use OF her
limbs, but Immediately began to lose flesh
rapidly. The hair on the left side Of her
head turned gray, and began falling out.
After four weeks Miss Harmon was able to
be about and attend to most of her house,
hold duties as usual, but in that time she
had been transformed from young and
handsome girl into a feeble old woman. Her
form, which had been plump and rounded,
was thin and bent and the skin on her face
and body was dry and wrinkled. She
had been sweet-tempered, affectionate
girl, but is now peevish, irritable and sci
fish, Her voice is harsh and cracked and
no one to look. at her would imagine thatshe
was less than sixty years Of age. The Har-
mon family are Mortified and well-nigh
heart broken by the fate Of their once hand
some daughter, while young Eberlein is al
most frantic over the change in his aflanced
bride. The physicians claim that the cleo
trio current communicated directly with the
principal nerves of the spine and the left
side of the head and that the shock almost
completely destroyed their vitality, Strange
to relate, the girls eyesight.is but slightly
affected, but her hearing is almost totally
destroyed Notwithstanding her. condition,
the physicians claim that her chances for
living her allotted number Of years are not
materially lessened, although she can new
er recover from her prematurely aged con-
dition.s Instances in which PERSONS hair
has turned white in single night from
fright, grief Or some excessive nervous
shock are not rare, but this is supposed to
be the first case in medical history in which
q person has been known to step from the
bloom of vigorous youth into the decrepi.
tude of old age within a week. .=szs